Re: storing data in a desktop app
David Segall wrote:
When I first wrote the page I received some entirely justified
criticism about the programs that were omitted. I decided to include
all the open source databases that claimed to be relational and would
run in the same JVM as your application. I'm grateful for your
comments and I can see why you would not choose some of them. However,
I'm reluctant to omit them because I don't think that I should
restrict visitors to my choice of database products.
Without any added value, such as comments like, "Apparently not updated in
seven years, nor to Java 5 or beyond," a simple list such as yours is
essentially the same as what a search engine would yield, only less complete.
Among the top hits on the first page of
<http://www.google.com/search?q=Java+relational+database+%2B%22open+source%22>
are
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_database_management_systems>
and
<http://java-source.net/open-source/database-engines>
which have overlapping but different lists from each other's and from yours.
(Wikipedia's is not limited to open source.) You have not listed every
possible open-source RDBMS, based on what I see there.
Both of those lists are exemplary for their summary descriptions. You don't
need to visit every link to compare the systems, just the ones that make it
through triage.
As far as it goes your page is accurate and probably useful.
--
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.